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| | Liliput/ Kleenex | | | Music Artist : | | Liliput/ Kleenex | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Kill Rock Stars | | Release Date : | | 2001-02-20 | | Discs : | | 2 | | Store Price : | | $17.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $17.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Nighttoad - Kleenex
2. Madness - Kleenex
3. Krimi - Kleenex
4. 1978 - Kleenex
5. Beri-Beri - Kleenex
6. Ain't You - Kleenex
7. Hedi's Head - Kleenex
8. Nice - Kleenex
9. You - Kleenex
10. Ü - Kleenex
11. Split
12. Die Matrosen
13. Hitch-Hike
14. DC-10
15. Thumblerdoll
16. Igel
17. Türk
18. Tisko
19. Wig-Wam
20. Eisiger Wid
21. Whenthe Cat's Away
22. I Had a Dream
23. Turn the Table
24. Dolly Dollar
Disc 21. Do You Mind
2. In a Mess
3. Birdy
4. Feel Like Snakes, Twisting Through the Fog
5. Tschik-Mo
6. Outburst
7. Umamm
8. Might Is Right
9. Like or Lump It
10. Ichor
11. Tong Tong
12. Jatz
13. You Did It
14. Ring-A-Ding-Dong
15. Silver Key Can Open an Iron Lock Somewhere
16. Your's Is Mine
17. Blue Is All in Rush
18. Terrified
19. Etoile
20. On Streets Without Names
21. Boatsong
22. His Head All Red
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 Perfection for fans of Post-Punk
Submitted on: 2009-03-09 |
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| Kleenex/LiLiPUT has been a favorite band of mine since I first heard "Ain't You" in 1978, but I lost track of them after 1980's Split/Die Matrosen. This CD compilation fills in all the gaps. It is a joy from start to finish. CD 1 contains all the old favorites and some less familiar songs. It's all spare, quirky, driving post-punk fun and will likely be the favorite of people who remember them from that time. CD 2 is a revelation and is fast becoming my favorite part of the album. LiLiPUT's later songs have them exploring no-wave and funk territory that sounds so New York. I had no idea. At turns they resemble the Velvet Underground meets DNA, the Bush Tetras meet the Contortions, Y-Pants meets Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. But always they are uniquely LiLiPUT. Their music still sounds fresh 25 years later. I am more a fan than ever. These two discs are essential for post-punk fans. |
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This is art
Submitted on: 2008-08-29 |
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No matter how you look at it, one of the singers/eras of the band is going to be your favorite, and for me it is the Chirgle Freund where they were still kind of a punk band but reaching beyond that. This is the kind of band that if you played it at a party, half the people in the room would turn around and say "What in the world are we listening to?" And that's great.
My favorite tracks are "Nighttoad", "Hitch-Hike", and "Eisiger Wind" which are all pure fun. While you may not like every song on here equally, this band is amazingly creative and excellent. Be glad you heard of the band and get their cd soon. Essential. |
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One of the Top Three Post-Punk Bands
Submitted on: 2005-11-18 |
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I can only say that you will be blown away by the creative fun and brilliance of Liliput. This mostly girl band is easily the equal to their counterparts Wire and the Gang of Four. Wire is the most artistically caustic of any of the post-punk bands with Pink Flag setting the standard for rock/punk within the two minute song. They are dead serious about their work and maybe only smile with the sly smile of those that get away with something profoundly artistic.
Gang of Four wrote the template for post punk slash, funk, and clang with their situationist rebel music related to Marxist cultural criticism. See: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0942299795/103-0271341-3583865?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance.
Go4 is the reason for the existence of the pop bands like Bloc Party (Go4-oriented) Franz Ferdinand (airhead pop), and Maximo Park (their live show sounds a lot like Wire). The post-punk wave may be just beginning - lets pray fervently so.
Now we come to Liliput. To put it simply -- they are an equally great band, composed in various incarnations of mostly women who laid down the Dadaist-influenced but seminal pop/punk. Not only did they have fun on stage like Go4 - they let themselves be guided by their instincts to create fun music. In doing so they created a lively body of work that is without parallel R&R. If you like your bands to play with whistles, squeaky toys, pots and pans, squeal, purr, and really play with their music - this is for you. If you are serious about having fun this is for you.
We can only hope that some bright and lively kids will pick up this diamond and return the gift to us in a new form. |
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 Of Mice And Women
Submitted on: 2005-10-20 |
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The new wave period that was concomitant with punk and largely outlived it was one of the richest, freest and most anarchic in the recent history of popular music culture. Along with the Slits, the Swiss-based girl band Kleenex were living proof that music was about creativity and originality more than it was about musicianship. The level of craft in early Kleenex was rudimentary at best, yet the explosion of noise they made was joyous.
Before being forced to change their name, Kleenex completed 10 tracks, four of which are released here for the first time. Their first UK single in 1978 was the exuberant Ain't You, which was backed by the equally eccentric Hedi's Head. Their grasp of English was less than perfect but they chose to sing in the language for that very reason - hoping that the unintentional meanings and juxtapositions thrown up in the process would create new subtexts and approaches, and express additional freedoms. Often their lyrics would be augmented liberally by squawks and squeaks (a rodent motif runs through their work) and indeed Hedi's Head has not so much a lyric as a series of chord changes in German notation (H/E/Dis H/E/A/D). Rough Trade brought them over to London to record their second single, the classic You/Ü.
Slightly after this point their singer Regula Sing left to join the Mo-Dettes (of White Mice fame) and was replaced by Chrigle Freund. Saxophonist Angie Barrack also joined briefly and following the unwelcome interest of a certain paper tissue manufacturer, they decided a change of name might be in order and became LiLiPUT. This line-up delivered the almighty 1980 single Split/Die Matrosen, augmented here by two unreleased tracks from the session, Hitch-hike and DC-10. A radio concert for Schweitzer Radio DRS, recorded at the Gaskessel in Biel, gives a unique opportunity to hear what they sounded like out of the studio. By 1981 they were down to a three-piece of Chrigle (now doubling on drums with the loss of Lislot Ha) and founders Marlene Marder and Klau Schiff on guitar and bass. This line up produced Eisiger Wind, possibly their most fully realized recording, and its bizarre flip, When The Cat's Away (The Mice Will Play) with accordion accompaniment, but led to the departure of Chrigle. Disc one ends with three previously unheard recordings with new singer and violinist Astrid Spirit and the temporary recruitment of two guys on sax and drums. It was particularly good to hear the unreleased material on this most essential first disc after all these years.
The second disc contains their debut LP, Liliput, from 1982, and their second and final album Some Songs, from 1983. Sandwiched in between is their final single You Did It/The Jatz. It shows the band somewhat overstretched here and there and as they became musically more proficient the trade-off of primal energy didn't always work to their advantage, though as they moved more into Raincoats/Essential Logic territory there are several highpoints such as A Silver Key Can Open An Iron Lock Somewhere.
When they disbanded in 1984, Marlene formed a band called Danger Mice. Klau became the respected artist Klaudia Schifferle. I wonder if she paints mice at all? |
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 A huge influence on Riot Grrl music.
Submitted on: 2003-08-02 |
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| If you like Riot Grrl music, you will love the first disc of this 2 CD collection. It definitely reminded me of bands like Bikini Kill and Bratmobile. The girls in LiLiPUT sing (in both English and German) as well as scream and make weird noises over loud and fast music. Some songs are cool, but others sound too much alike. And if you don't like repetition, the first disc, which has a whopping 24 songs on it, can begin to get on your nerves. It definitely starts to get on mine. Which is why I prefer the second disc. It is less repetitious, and more experimental in terms of style, than the first one. The second disc has a world/tribal music feel to it, which is cool, but not as original as some people may think. Lots of women artists were experimenting with world/tribal music sounds during the early '80s, including: the Au Pairs, the Bush Tetras, Lora Logic/Essential Logic and Siouxsie Sioux/The Creatures. LiLiPUT is not the only band who did this. The songs which had saxophone in them reminded me a lot of Essential Logic, which was a band where saxophone played a large part in their music. Essential Logic used saxophone in their music from the start. They got together in 1978. That doesn't necessarily mean that LiLiPUT ripped Essential Logic off, but you can definitely hear the latter band's influence in LiLiPUT's early '80s recordings.
(By the way, Kill Rock Stars recently put out a 2 disc collection of Essential Logic's music, which is also worth checking out, especially if you like experimental and arty girl punk.) The reason why I only gave the LiLiPUT collection 3 stars is because of my preference of the second disc over the first one. If the collection was only made up of the songs on the second disc, then I would have given it 4 stars. The world/tribal music sound of the second disc might not be completely original when compared to what other women artists were doing during the era, but it is still enjoyable to listen to. And even though I am not a big fan of the first disc, I would still recommend the entire collection to people. I am very thankful to Kill Rock Stars for re-issuing LiLiPUT's music (as well as Essential Logic's) and educating people about these lesser known, but still important, women artists. |
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